STRiV Forward in Orem, Utah, assists young adults and students ages 18-25+ who are struggling to make the transition into adulthood. Our therapeutic transitional living program is designed to improve executive functioning and other skills needed for healthy and lasting independence.
Transformative Programs for Young Adults & Students
STRiV Forward offers a therapeutic transitional living program for struggling young adults. Our program is designed to help emerging adults practice essential life skills in a real-world setting while having access to mental health care and targeted coaching. These therapeutic aspects are provided by external industry professionals, such as psychiatrists, clinicians, or medical doctors. Students live in fully furnished apartments, with a typical length of stay of 12 months (average 10-14 months).
Our therapeutic programs are best designed to help young adults who lack momentum, direction, and confidence, but are motivated to make personal changes. Students struggling with mental health conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or anxiety can find personalized treatment plans to help them cope with and healthily manage their conditions. By the time our students are ready to leave, they will have built a toolkit of skills needed to thrive as independent adults.
To learn how our therapeutic programs can help your emerging adult, contact our admissions team today.
To learn how our therapeutic programs can help your emerging adult, contact our admissions team today.
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Why Families and Students Choose STRiV Forward
STRiV Forward sets itself apart by offering a unique, supportive environment tailored to help young adults build independence and confidence.
Safe Space for Growth: We understand how challenging it can be to transition into adulthood. Our program offers a supportive environment where students can learn from failure and try again without the pressure to be perfect, fostering resilience and confidence.
Personalized Support: Each student receives tailored mental health care designed to promote community, growth, and accountability. Our small, boutique setting ensures individualized attention with a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, enabling meaningful connections and personalized guidance.
Community, Not Just Treatment: Students are integrated into a supportive community rather than treated as just participants in a treatment program. We respect their independence through a freedom-first approach that includes no strict curfews and permission to use technology.
Freedom to Pursue Passions: We encourage students to engage in hobbies and activities they love. Our flexible environment promotes self-discovery and confidence, helping students develop independence through meaningful experiences.
Long-Term Relationships: Our dedicated staff has an exceptionally low turnover rate, allowing mentors to build lasting, trust-based relationships with students. This stability supports ongoing growth and personalized mentoring.
Structured Opportunities for Reflection and Growth: Within our safe, supportive environment, students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences, learn from them, and grow at their own pace. The combination of peer and professional support creates a nurturing space.
Safe Space for Growth: We understand how challenging it can be to transition into adulthood. Our program offers a supportive environment where students can learn from failure and try again without the pressure to be perfect, fostering resilience and confidence.
Personalized Support: Each student receives tailored mental health care designed to promote community, growth, and accountability. Our small, boutique setting ensures individualized attention with a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, enabling meaningful connections and personalized guidance.
Community, Not Just Treatment: Students are integrated into a supportive community rather than treated as just participants in a treatment program. We respect their independence through a freedom-first approach that includes no strict curfews and permission to use technology.
Freedom to Pursue Passions: We encourage students to engage in hobbies and activities they love. Our flexible environment promotes self-discovery and confidence, helping students develop independence through meaningful experiences.
Long-Term Relationships: Our dedicated staff has an exceptionally low turnover rate, allowing mentors to build lasting, trust-based relationships with students. This stability supports ongoing growth and personalized mentoring.
Structured Opportunities for Reflection and Growth: Within our safe, supportive environment, students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences, learn from them, and grow at their own pace. The combination of peer and professional support creates a nurturing space.
Common Struggles Young Adults & Students Face in Their Everyday Lives
Young people, especially young students transitioning into college or out of foster care, often face unique struggles that can impact their ability to be independent.
Conditions such as social anxiety, ADHD, and autism can make it difficult to connect with peers. Struggles with executive functioning can make it difficult to study or work. These compounding issues can greatly impact a young adult’s mental health, sometimes leading to serious issues such as substance use, self-harm, or suicidal thoughts.
Conditions such as social anxiety, ADHD, and autism can make it difficult to connect with peers. Struggles with executive functioning can make it difficult to study or work. These compounding issues can greatly impact a young adult’s mental health, sometimes leading to serious issues such as substance use, self-harm, or suicidal thoughts.
We understand that our students seek independence and, as such, guide them in achieving their goals with professional and compassionate support. This approach helps our students to empower themselves to make meaningful changes as they learn and grow.
Helping Young Adults & Students Gain Independence
Our young adult programs are specifically designed to help our students gain independence through their own merit. It addresses the unique challenges young adults face and provides the healthy solutions needed to overcome them.
Although we provide professional support and guidance, it’s ultimately up to the student to achieve their goals. Over time, this builds the confidence and self-esteem needed to meet the independent milestones of a healthy, successful adult life.
Although we provide professional support and guidance, it’s ultimately up to the student to achieve their goals. Over time, this builds the confidence and self-esteem needed to meet the independent milestones of a healthy, successful adult life.
Helping Students Balance Life & School
Many of our students are seeking education by completing high school, earning a GED, or taking college courses. We help our students balance school obligations and self-care in healthy ways to ensure academic success and prevent burnout.
Support for ADHD & Executive Functioning Challenges
We offer executive function coaching as part of our therapeutic transitional living program, which teaches critical skills such as time management, emotional regulation, and problem-solving. With a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, we can help students who struggle with conditions that make executive functioning difficult receive the personalized coaching they need for success.
Improve Self-Esteem and Anxiety-Related Challenges
It’s common for emerging adults to struggle with self-esteem and anxiety-related challenges as they work to figure out who they are and their place in the world. We offer targeted care for anxiety conditions such as panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and social anxiety disorder. By treating these disorders, we help our students confidently tackle adult problems and responsibilities.
Failure to Launch Programming
We provide a safe and encouraging environment, away from the family, for students to build skills, learn, and work on the self-actualization needed for independent living. Our team of experts is aware of the challenges our students face and uses personalized approaches to help students build a strong foundation for independence.
Support for Technology Dependence and Video Game Overuse
The ease and access to technology have had a profound effect on the mental health of emerging adults. Dependence on video games, the internet, and social media is now more common than ever. We provide support for compulsive users, helping them focus on goals over screens.
Education & Support for Families
We understand the importance of keeping families educated and supported throughout their loved one’s care. Our programs offer psychodecuation, access to parent support groups, and guidance for families. This helps families not just better connect with their loved one, but also learn how to set boundaries and facilitate healthy separation for independence.
Living at STRiV Forward
We take great care to create an environment that’s safe yet offers real-world practice, giving our students a place to practice, fail, and try again, building skills, confidence, and resilience naturally.
Apartment-Style Living That Supports Growth & Independence
Our apartments are designed for semi-independent living and allow students to practice essential daily life skills with professional oversight. Students live in fully furnished apartments with private bedrooms and bathrooms. This builds confidence, accountability, and self-sufficiency through real-world learning.
A Structured, In-Person Community in Utah
Our local community in Orem is here to help support students as they branch out and discover who they are. Through volunteer work and academic/vocational activities, students learn the crucial roles they will need for successful independence.
A Focus on Comfort, Accountability, & Continuing Growth
One of our priorities is fostering personal accountability and the desire for continued growth in our students. Students must utilize the coping strategies they learn in real-world situations, such as managing their time wisely.
As such, we don’t place restrictions on tech (unless needed for a process addiction) and have no curfew. Because of this, students experience natural consequences for their choices in a safe environment, which encourages them to make healthier decisions in the future.
As such, we don’t place restrictions on tech (unless needed for a process addiction) and have no curfew. Because of this, students experience natural consequences for their choices in a safe environment, which encourages them to make healthier decisions in the future.
Life Skills Development to Help Navigate Real-World Situations
Part of young adulthood is learning how to be independent. Many students who arrive at our programs come directly from high school, which was a strictly controlled environment. Now they must establish self-agency and learn skills that aren’t being taught in schools.
We take a compassionate approach to this problem by teaching our students these skills in a real-world setting. Our program gives them a safe place to try and fail, learn how to try again, and succeed at the tasks they set out to do. Part of life at STRiV includes maintaining a living space, cooking, attending school, holding a job, managing a budget, and other real-world situations students will face once they are independent.
We take a compassionate approach to this problem by teaching our students these skills in a real-world setting. Our program gives them a safe place to try and fail, learn how to try again, and succeed at the tasks they set out to do. Part of life at STRiV includes maintaining a living space, cooking, attending school, holding a job, managing a budget, and other real-world situations students will face once they are independent.
Support for Pursuing Education & Employment
Part of independent living is pursuing further education or preparing for a career. To help our students get a head start, we provide academic and vocational counseling and training. This supports our students as they pursue a future career through work or school.
Develop Skills to Manage Mental Health and Emotional Barriers
Our students are taught to care for their emotional and mental health through holistic modalities, including relaxation techniques, psychoeducation, and individualized therapy. Students eventually leave with a firm grasp on self-care and resources to seek further help as needed.
Personalized Coaching & Mentorship Support
With a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, we can address the specific needs of each of our students for optimal therapeutic outcomes. We offer several types of coaching, with life skills and executive functioning coaching being a staple part of our therapeutic living program. Our expert mentors offer personal guidance to students, helping them develop self-awareness and take accountability for their choices.
A Whole-Person Approach to Care
STRiV Forward takes a whole-person approach to care, which addresses each student’s mental, emotional, and physical needs. This approach ensures that each student receives the exact care they need, not just to heal but to thrive as individuals.
Medication Management for Mental Health & Co-Occurring Conditions
Some mental health conditions can be managed successfully with medication. For our students who need medication, we utilize the help of psychiatrists and other clinical professionals for a safe and effective experience. Students who need medication receive frequent check-ins to ensure safety and to make adjustments as needed.
Personalized Individual Therapy
Early intervention and personalized care are the best approaches for helping manage mental health challenges. We utilize evidence-based and effective therapies, such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), to help students address and cope with their challenges.
Share Experiences in Group Therapy
Group therapy provides a safe and supportive space for our students to develop support systems and share experiences with their peers. This helps students develop accountability, practice social skills, and see that they are not alone in their struggles.
Recreation & Adventure Activities
Discovering exciting hobbies that bring you joy is part of developing coping skills and socializing. We take full advantage of what Utah has to offer, with hiking, fishing, and backpacking among the many outdoor adventures our students enjoy.
Health & Wellness
A healthy body is just as important as a healthy mind. Students are taught how to exercise, eat a healthy diet, practice sleep hygiene, and relax for optimal health and well-being. Any students needing outpatient treatment for co-occurring mental or medical issues have their needs addressed with our personalized approach to care.
Community Involvement
Students are encouraged to engage with our local community to form natural support systems. Clubs, hobbies, volunteer opportunities, jobs, school, and more are all within reach of our students, helping them grow into well-rounded adults.
Who Is a Good Fit for This Program?
Our program is designed to help students who struggle with independence but are motivated to make lasting changes. We are best able to help students with mild to moderate mental health issues, including past (but not current) substance use. Some of the most common challenges faced by our students include executive functioning struggles, mental health issues such as ADHD or anxiety, or the need for failure-to-thrive support. Students are assessed to ensure they can live safely and semi-independently in our apartments.
Partnering With Families to Support Long-Term Growth
One of our goals is to help families foster healthy communication and independence among their members. Families are closely involved in the care of their loved ones while at STRiV. Part of this support involves helping families form the healthy boundaries needed for successful independence and continuous growth.
A Safe & Supportive Environment for Young Adults & Students
We are committed to providing a safe and encouraging environment for all our young adult students. Our home-like facilities are specifically designed to invoke comfort as our students learn, fail, and grow. It’s an ideal place for young adults to build confidence and learn valuable skills with the help of industry professionals trained in young-adult care. If you are looking for a place where your loved one can thrive as an emerging adult, contact our admissions office today.
FAQs
What are life skills programs for young adults?
Life skills programs for young adults are specialized programs that provide structured therapeutic support to emerging adults. The goal of these programs is to teach essential life skills, such as financial management, emotional regulation, and social skills, in a real-world setting. This helps develop real-world experiences that are needed for lasting success and confidence in adulthood.
How is your program different from inpatient or residential treatment programs?
The main difference between STRiV Forward and an inpatient or residential treatment center is the intensity of the services that are provided and what is treated.
STRiV Forward does not provide inpatient care, nor do we treat serious conditions that require 24/7 medical oversight, such as active substance abuse, as we do not have the capabilities to provide detoxification and other intensive medical intervention services.
Instead, we offer a transitional living experience where students with mild to moderate mental health challenges can get support, while focusing on vocational training, life skills development, and other specialized coaching needed for independence.
Can this program help a young adult transition successfully into the real world?
Yes, our therapeutic independent living program can help young adults build the skills and confidence needed to transition into the real world. Students learn several essential life skills and get support in vocational and/or academic pursuits.
How long is your program?
The length of stay for each student at STRiV will vary based on their individual needs. Typically, students remain in our program for 12 months, but the average stay lasts between 10 and 14 months.